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COVID-19 Emergency - Using UV Lamps to sanitize Face Masks overnight
Gyro:
You can always get a robot to do it... and the rest of the room (UV-C):
--- Quote ---Coronavirus: Robots use light beams to zap hospital viruses
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51914722
I hope they use PIR sensors as well as a warning voice!
najrao:
I am an old man stuck at home with only the woman I married 50 years ago. Neither of us is infected, so far as we know. I live in Bangalore, India, which has very low incidence of the virus infection just yet.
Hand sanitizers are in short supply. But I have a large hoard of isopropyl alcohol, 99+% strength which I use to clean pcb's and assemblies. Would it work as well as ethyl?
Let me have a quick reply please, thank you.
Mechatrommer:
soap and water for 20 seconds is all it takes, probably much more effective, save you IPA for the worse later... its good if you have 1 ton xray machine that can kill anything but... why complicates things during this hard time? you can watch people dying while trying to build or wait for the order to complete/arrive.
Gyro:
--- Quote from: najrao on March 20, 2020, 12:23:15 pm ---Hand sanitizers are in short supply. But I have a large hoard of isopropyl alcohol, 99+% strength which I use to clean pcb's and assemblies. Would it work as well as ethyl?
Let me have a quick reply please, thank you.
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Isopropyl (IPA) is actually what they use in the medical environment and hand sanitizer. I think the normal concentration is 60-70%so you could let it down with water and maybe some liquid soap (to make it lather).
fcb:
--- Quote from: Gyro on March 20, 2020, 09:58:04 am ---You can always get a robot to do it... and the rest of the room (UV-C):
--- Quote ---Coronavirus: Robots use light beams to zap hospital viruses
--- End quote ---
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51914722
I hope they use PIR sensors as well as a warning voice!
--- End quote ---
I've seen one of these robots up-close and also under test.
Essentially they are just a bunch (Philips) UVC tubes. 99.8% of the electronics, software and smarts are about detecting when someone has walked into a room unwittingly, remote control and IoT wank.
They will ruin your eyes VERY quickly. I suspect they will also destroy alot of plastics used in the ward with more than occasional use. Also, these are used AFTER you have already cleaned a room.
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